Shirley Feldman's Biosketch

Shirley Feldman has taught at Stanford University since 1971. She served as Director of the Stanford Center for the Study of Families, Children, and Youth for 4 years (1991-1995) and is currently serving as Associate Director of the Human Biology Program and as Director for the curriculum on Children and Society. Her research concerns socialization of children and adolescents. In recent years her interests have focused on adolescent development and she has co-edited the influential volume "At the Threshold: The Developing Adolescence" (Harvard University Press, 1990). She has conducted longitudinal studies which span two important transitions -- from childhood into early adolescence, and from mid adolescence into adulthood -- in which she focuses particularly on family influences on both normal and pathological development (including school success, peer relations, depression, delinquency, romantic intimacy, sexuality, promiscuity). She teaches in the Human Biology Program and in the Division of Child Psychiatry. She is married to Marc Feldman, Professor of Biology at Stanford, and has three grown sons, all of whom graduated from Stanford.